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At Typesafe, we have already partnered with quite a few consulting firms to provide professional services to companies looking to Go Reactive. In doing so, we ask each of our partner candidates to put together a Typesafe Activator template that showcases their skills, capabilities and quality of work. However, that doesn't give us much visibility into the specific strengths each firm brings to the table. To help provide that visibility, we recently created a capabilities model for partners that reflects the many different aspects of our technologies...

If you're an Enterprise Architect, the idea of architecture modernization is probably on your mind a lot; with the explosion of Reactive applications now entering the mainstream, understanding the implications of "Going Reactive" is a good thing to look into. After all, what do you do when you need to react quickly to competitive threats or new line of business demands, but your existing architecture is anything but nimble? In this conversational-style webinar with Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Michael Facemire, and Typesafe Enterprise Advocate, Kevin Webber, we go discuss some of the questions Architects are asking, such as...

It's been exciting times here at Typesafe. In my four years here, we've grown as a company, and in a recent post by our President and CEO Mark Brewer, we announced that we've decided to change our company name to reflect our own internal changes. As a company dedicated to open source technologies, we thought it also made sense expose this journey to the community, and give regular updates during the process. But before I give you an update on the process, first I thought I'd describe why I joined Typesafe.

Are you interested in getting started with the Typesafe Reactive Platform but don’t know where to begin? Have you heard about Akka and Play Framework, but don’t know if either is right for your application needs? Join us for this three-part webinar series all about Activator, Play, Akka, and our surrounding ecosystem to better understand how all the pieces work together and start building reactive apps with confidence!

Today we’ve published a short white paper (actually it’s blue…), Introducing the Typesafe Reactive Platform. It offers a guide to Typesafe, a map of our ecosystem and additional resources for education and exploration. The aim of the white paper is to familiarize developers, enterprise architects, dev managers, CTOs, and others with Typesafe technologies and how they are used to build Reactive apps.

After the very successful collaboration between the Spray and Akka teams: creating the new Akka IO module; we are thrilled to announce that this collaboration has been taken to the next level by merging the Akka and Spray projects—absorbing the awesome capabilities of Spray’s HTTP into Akka. With this, Spray will become a supported part of the Typesafe Reactive Platform.

On September 23rd, Typesafe is excited to host a developer hackathon and roundtable discussion in the afternoon from Noon to 6:00pm. So bring your laptop if you want to get hands-on experience building Reactive apps with the Typesafe Platform.

The eventsourced library developed by Martin Krasser for Eligotech has grown into a full-fledged and robust solution for Actor persistence, offering support for reliable command- and event-sourcing, configurable message delivery guarantees, state snapshots and recovery. We are excited to announce that Martin is working with the Akka team in order to transport and transform eventsourced into the akka-persistence module of Akka. Typesafe and Eligotech will collaborate to provide support for this module once it is released as part of Akka 2.3, which is due by the end of this year.

Yesterday, James Ward, developer advocate at Typesafe, presented a webinar on building Reactive Apps with the Typesafe Platform. For those of you who missed out, or simply want to rewatch and share the session with friends and colleagues, we recorded James' presentation for your viewing pleasure!

Given the wonderful spirit of the community, it's not surprising that our recent Developer Contest took on a charitable spin! Martin Odersky started the trend by donating his JAX Ambassador Award prize money for the contest. Then, two of our winners were extremely generous in donating their prize money....

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At Typesafe, we have already partnered with quite a few consulting firms to provide professional services to companies looking to Go Reactive. In doing so, we ask each of our partner candidates to put together a Typesafe Activator template that showcases their skills, capabilities and quality of work. However, that doesn't give us much visibility into the specific strengths each firm brings to the table. To help provide that visibility, we recently created a capabilities model for partners that reflects the many different aspects of our technologies...

Typesafe Deputy CTO Viktor Klang goes into the world of microservices to see how these architectures emerge from the constraints of reality. Viktor reviews the problems imposed by reality, and shows how they can not only be solved, but how the constraints free us from misconceptions that are otherwise very easy to acquire. We also explore how distributed systems are at the heart of microservices-based architectures and how communication shapes the structure, behavior and development of the software...